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Noun jack has 11 senses
- jack, diddly-squat, diddlysquat, diddly-shit, diddlyshit, diddly, diddley, squat, shit - a small worthless amount; "you don't know jack"
--1 is a kind of small indefinite quantity, small indefinite amount
- mariner, seaman, tar, Jack-tar, Jack, old salt, seafarer, gob, sea dog - a man who serves as a sailor
--2 is a kind of sailor, crewman
--2 has particulars: | | able seaman, able-bodied seaman; boatswain, bos'n, bo's'n, bosun, bo'sun; deckhand, roustabout; helmsman, steersman, steerer; lighterman, bargeman, bargee; officer, ship's officer; pilot; sea lawyer; whaler |
- laborer, manual laborer, labourer, jack - someone who works with their hands; someone engaged in manual labor
--3 is a kind of workman, working man, working person
--3 has particulars: | | agricultural laborer, agricultural labourer; bracero; cleaner; day laborer, day labourer; digger; dishwasher; drudge, peon, navvy, galley slave; gandy dancer; gravedigger; hewer; hired hand, hand, hired man; hod carrier, hodman; itinerant; lumberman, lumberjack, feller, faller; miner, mineworker; muleteer, mule skinner, mule driver, skinner; platelayer, tracklayer; porter; rail-splitter, splitter; sawyer; section hand; sprayer; stacker; steeplejack; stevedore, loader, longshoreman, docker, dockhand, dock worker, dock-walloper, lumper; stoker, fireman; woodcutter; wrecker; yardman |
- jackfruit, jak, jack - immense East Indian fruit resembling breadfruit of; its seeds are commonly roasted
--4 is a kind of edible fruit
--4 is a part of jackfruit, jackfruit tree, Artocarpus heterophyllus
- jack - an electrical device consisting of a connector socket designed for the insertion of a plug
--5 is a kind of electrical device
--5 has particulars: telephone jack, phone jack
- jack - game equipment consisting of one of several small objects picked up while bouncing a ball in the game of jacks
--6 is a kind of game equipment
- jack - small flag indicating a ship's nationality
--7 is a kind of flag
- jack, knave - one of four face cards in a deck bearing a picture of a young prince
--8 is a kind of face card, picture card, court card
- jack - tool for exerting pressure or lifting
--9 is a kind of tool
--9 has particulars: bumper jack; jackscrew, screw jack
- jack - any of several fast-swimming predacious fishes of tropical to warm-temperate seas
--10 is a kind of carangid fish, carangid
--10 is a member of Carangidae, family Carangidae
--10 has particulars: | | crevalle jack, jack crevalle, Caranx hippos; yellow jack, Caranx bartholomaei; runner, blue runner, Caranx crysos; rainbow runner, Elagatis bipinnulata; leatherjacket, leatherjack; threadfish, thread-fish, Alectis ciliaris; amberjack, amberfish; yellowtail, Seriola dorsalis; rudderfish, banded rudderfish, Seriola zonata; kingfish, Seriola grandis |
- jack, jackass - male donkey
--11 is a kind of ass
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